The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-05

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place, and kicking the waste basket
around the room. Leave on Satur-
day. Good heavens and this was
Friday | began to wonder if the
water in the Mississippi was cold
supposing one could cut a hole in
the ice-or if poison were better, and
had really worked myself into a
comfortable sort Of gloom, when in
came that internal boy again and
handed me n note which looked as
if it had been kicked about the
streets for month. / knew the
writing at onSe-it was hers, and in
my joy | gave the lad fifty cents and
told him he might have a holiday
next week, and go to his grand
mothers funeral-having a dim idea
that he had once ortwice asked leave
of absence for that purpose.
"My dear George, l am locked up
in my room and am crying all the
time. Aunt comes to the door
every hour and shouts, yes, shouts
through the keyhole Have ysu
heard from George? You ought to
see him with a black eye. He is so
lovely-it's so becoming and other
horrid things like that. She is 60
ing to take me away tomorrow, and
carry me off to Europe, and oh,
George, shall die, know l shall.
But | must tell you how to see me
once more. She has promised Mrs.
Smith-Jones Chat horrid woman) to
go with her and see the toboggan
slide tomorrow at IL o'clock and
she is afraid to leave me behind, and
viii be obliged to take me with her!
Do you understand? This is our
last chance, but what can we do?
We leave at 4 o'clock, and my cous-
in Tom will arrive about | to go
back with us and act as policeman
on our journey. Susan, the house
maid is going to take the note to
you. If it is little stained and yell
low don't mind, as | have to send it
out in the coffee-pot with breakfast
things, for aunt is the only person in
my room-she brings in all my
meals herself. Goodbye, dear, dear
George. Yours
unhappy but loving JULIA.
P. S. OF course there is no posi-
BILE use in my thinking anything
could happen-I wouldn't run away
if l could, but will take my jewel
ry with me-
P. p S. | have promised Susan,
through the keyhole, that you would
give her five dollars" -
| rushed into the outer office, and
there sat susan, pretty girl, whom
l had often seen flirting desperately
with one of the young clerks, who is
really incorrigiblc, and has been
caught making love to the scrub
women when other material failed.
He blushed on seeing me, and dip
ped the wrong end ofthe pen in the
ink. l called the girl into my Office
and gave her $40 instead of s., and
heard all the particulars of Julia's
imprisonment, and how Mrs. Jupp
was abusing the whole household
raising Cain generally. She had de-
posted pail of water and "A broom
in the hall behind the door, and had
given strict orders to thd servants to
summon her instantly should pre-
sent myself again at the house. Su-
san said it was quite settled that the
old lady would go to the tobggan
slide the next day and take her
niece with her, and that they were
packing up everything and would
leave in the afternoon.
"Tell Miss Julia, Susan," said l,
''That l will be there without fail,
will wear my toboggan suit, so as the
old lady i mean Mrs. Jupp-may
not recognize me in it at first"
every WE'LL" said Susan, "and if
Miss Julia is going down in one of
them things, I'd best tell her to put
on thick stocking"
looked at Susan, and Susan
looked at me, and then l burst into
the other office and Borrowed S5
with which in addition to her capi-
tai the maiden departed smiling.
Bright girl, that Susan shall never
forget her.
We were m the height of the much
talked-of carnival, so next day ap-
peared ip in the uniform of the club
to which belonged, painfully con,
scious that my legs, particularly the
flower half of them clad in red stock
ings, were out of proportion to the
rest of my person, which was much
enlarged by the blanket suit, sash,
etc. Asto my feet they had never
looked so large and clumsy, and
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